Knights of Edward I, Volume IV – P to S

Volume IV (of V) only. viii, 326, [2, blank], [viii].  Maroon cloth-covered boards with gilt motif on upper panel, gilt lettering on spine.  4to.  Cloth is a little worn and mildly marked, rubbed at corners and ends of sunned spine.  Text block edges a little darkened and lightly spotted.  Some mild tanning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  

A substantial compendium of biographical and historical information regarding the knights at the court of Edward I in the 13th Century, collected by Rev Charles Moor from various notices and sources.  This volume, P to S, includes important families such as the Percys, Sackvills, Staffords, others well known to history and others more obscure and less recorded.  A glance through shows how a large number of men rose gradually from inconspicuous origins to positions of consequence – and indeed the compiler argues that knighthood was ‘almost more difficult to avoid than obtain’.